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Technical Services
Michael Bradford

The Technical Services Interest Group (TSIG) Business Meeting was 
held on Friday, June 14, 2019. Ondrea Murphy (secretary) was absent 
from the conference this year and Michael Bradford volunteered to 
keep notes to share later.

Steering Committee Election
Chairman Richard Lammert was unable to determine the rotation 
of officers coming off of the Steering Committee and to recruit new 
candidates in time to hold an election at the meeting. He will follow-
up with a webinar meeting and figure out next steps for an election.

Online Conversations via Video Conference
It was suggested to have an ongoing set of Technical Services conver-
sations via webinar/Zoom meeting. Richard will reach out to Member 
Services to determine technical infrastructure needs that the Asso-
ciation could provide. Topics from the preconference email discus-
sions on the TSIG listserv could act as a starting off point for these 
conversations.

EBSCO Historical Monographs Project
Richard met with Brenda Bailey-Hainer last year and was able to 
determine enough matching information was available in the existing 
spreadsheets, which did not need manual intervention by a cataloger. 
There are some leftovers and Richard will follow-up.

CC:DA Update (Donna Wells)
Most of the discussions that occurred at the CC:DA sessions at ALA 
Midwinter in Seattle surrounded the revisions to RDA. The “real work” 
of the committee will begin after the revisions occur.



16  ANNUAL YEARBOOK

CONSER Funnel Survey (Michael Bradford)
Michael received the results from the CONSER Funnel interest survey 
that was published earlier this spring. He is looking at the results (not 
many respondents, which was expected due to the specialized nature 
of the funnel). He will share the survey results and analysis with the 
Professional Development Committee and determine next steps and 
reach out to the interested survey respondents who qualify for the 
funnel.

TCB Update (Leslie Engelson)
The transition to the OJS platform is complete. The editorial board 
will remain the same next year and Leslie will be returning as editor 
again. Leslie put a call out for Testimony articles.

SACO Funnel Update (Richard Lammert)
A SACO Funnel webinar will occur by the end of September, which is 
also the end of the Library of Congress’ fiscal year. Richard gave the 
names of interested members to LC and he will soon be sending out 
a Doodle poll to schedule with participants. The webinar will also be 
publicized via the PDC webinar programming, open to all.

Atla 2020 Detroit Possible Sessions
Walk-through of the new RDA, which is expected to be launched by 
February 2020. Donna Wells volunteered to lead a conversation group, 
because of her role on CC:DA, but intimated that she’s not an expert.

TROT Revision
Richard e-mailed Paul Frank at LC to determine the best way to handle 
the TROT revision: as an updated edition or as completely new work. 
The evaluation of the vocabulary by LC is different based on the path 
that is chosen.


